No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYBe the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Independence is happiness.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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